Fiftieth Supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya
This article is an introduction to the Fiftieth Supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya; to read its text see text:Fiftieth Supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya.| Subject | Du'a when fearing God |
|---|---|
| Hadith-Based/Non-Hadith-Based | Hadith-Based |
| Issued by | Imam al-Sajjad (a) |
| Narrator | Mutawakkil b. Harun |
| Shi'a sources | Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya |
The fiftieth supplication of al-Șahīfa al-Sajjādīyya (Arabic: الدعاء الخمسون من الصحيفة السجادية) is a supplication transmitted from Imam al-Sajjad (a), which is recited when fearing God for one’s sins. In this supplication, God is characterized as the nurturer and livelihood-giver of man, whose forgiveness is a source of hope. Moreover, reference is made to God's awareness of what is in people's hearts and God being All-clement.
Doctrines
The fiftieth supplication is a supplication in al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya that is recited when fearing God. According to Mamduhi Kirmanshahi, an interpreter of al-Sahifa, believers become full of fear on account of their sins. Thus, the return to God counts as the only refuge of a believer. Here are the doctrines of the supplication:
- God as the creator, nurturer, and livelihood-giver of humans
- Fear of disgrace and disrepute because of sins recorded in one's inventory of deeds
- Sins as factors leading to the waste of human talents and resulting in troubles
- Liberation from disappointment by means of God's promise of forgiveness
- God’s punishment is justice
- God’s not needing to punish His servants
- The secrets of the Heaven and the Earth not being concealed from God
- The fire of the Hell being beyond the human capacity
- Asking for God’s mercy and forgiveness
- The Infallibles (a) being aware of God’s secret names
- God's awareness of what is in people's hearts.
- God is All-clement, All-merciful.
- God's rule of the created world being eternal.
Commentaries
In the commentaries of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, such as Riyad al-salikin by Sayyid Ali Khan al-Madani,[1], Fi zilal al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya by Muhammad Jawad Mughniya,[2] Riyad al-'arifin by Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Darabi,[3] Afaq al-ruh by Muhammad Husayn Fadl Allah,[4] the fiftieth supplication is explicated in Arabic. The words used in the supplication is also elucidated in lexical commentaries such as Fayd Kashani's Ta'liqat 'ala l-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya[5] and 'Izz al-Din al-Jaza'iri's Sharh al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya[6]
The fiftieth supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya is expounded in such commentaries as Diyar-i ashiqan by Husayn Ansarian,[7] Shuhud wa shinakht by Muhammad Hasan Mamduhi Kirmanshahi,[8] Sharh wa tarjumi-yi Sahifi-yi Sajjadiyya by Sayyid Ahmad Fihri,[9] in Persian.
Notes
- ↑ Madanī Shīrāzī, Rīyāḍ al-sālikīn, vol. 7, p. 297-330.
- ↑ Mughnīya, Fī zilāl al-Ṣaḥīfa, p. 637-640.
- ↑ Dārābī, Rīyāḍ al-ʿārifīn, p. 699-705.
- ↑ Faḍl Allāh, Āfāq al-rūḥ, vol. 2, p. 592-600.
- ↑ Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, Taʿlīqāt ʿalā l-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya, p. 101-102.
- ↑ Jazā'irī, Sharh al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya, p. 285-287.
- ↑ Anṣārīyān, Diyār-i āshiqān, vol. 7, p. 587-599.
- ↑ Mamdūḥī Kirmanshāhī, Shuhūd wa shinākht, vol. 4, p. 293-305.
- ↑ Fihrī, Sharḥ wa tarjuma-yi Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya, vol. 3, p. 535-539.
References
- Anṣārīyān, Ḥusayn. Dīyār-i Āshiqān: tafsīr-i jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Tehran: Payām-i Āzādī, 1372 Sh.
- Dārābī, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad. Rīyāḍ al-ʿārifīn fī sharḥ al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Edited by Ḥusayn Dargāhī. Tehran: Nashr-i Uswa, 1379 Sh.
- Faḍl Allāh, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn. Āfāq al-rūḥ. Beirut: Dār al-Mālik, 1420 AH.
- Fihrī, Sayyid Aḥmad. Sharḥ wa tarjuma-yi Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Tehran: Nashr-i Uswa, 1388 Sh.
- Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, Muḥammad b. al-Murtaḍā al-. Taʿlīqāt ʿalā l-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Tehran: Muʾassisat al-Buḥūth wa l-Taḥqīqāt al-Thiqāfīyya, 1407 AH.
- Jazāʾirī, ʿIzz al-Dīn. Sharḥ al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Beirut: Dār al-Taʿāruf li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1402 AH.
- Madanī Shīrāzī, Sayyid ʿAlīkhān. Rīyāḍ al-sālikīn fī sharḥ al-Ṣaḥīfa Sayyid al-Sājjidīn. Qom: Muʾassisat al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1435 AH.
- Mughnīya, Muḥammad Jawād al-. Fī zilāl al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Qom: Dār al-Kitāb al-Islāmī, 1428 AH.
- Mamdūḥī Kirmanshāhī, Shuhūd wa shinākht; tarjuma wa sharḥ Ṣaḥīfa-yi Sajjādīyya. Qom: Būstān-i Kitāb, 1388 SH.